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1. specie<\/strong> — coined money<\/p>\n

Though cash has become rare, <\/em>specie is rarer still, for no one wants pennies scuffing a fancy phone case or screen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. gurning<\/strong> — making a silly or grotesque face [Brit.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Watching the facial tics and spasms of the psychics as they communicated telepathically made me think I had stumbled into a <\/em>gurning competition for deafmutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. prate<\/strong> — to speak overlong to little purpose<\/p>\n

Though he did <\/em>prate unconsciously and incessantly, gradually a listener realized that he did have a cogent point he was desperate to relate, but which he was unfortunately too inarticulate to communicate.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. dyslogistic<\/strong> — having a bad connotation<\/p>\n

It was only after the profiteering of suppliers to the Union Army during the Civil War that the term “shoddy” became <\/em>dyslogistic, before that time being merely a word denoting a felted cloth.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. charnel<\/strong> — vault for bones of the dead<\/p>\n

The shelves in the basement and the notebooks thereupon formed his personal <\/em>charnel, where his aborted ideas and poetry provided food for silverfish, not for thought.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. umbrageous<\/strong> — shady, providing shade<\/p>\n

The <\/em>umbrageous eucalyptus branches swaying high above in the wafting air lulled him into a hypnotized state of happy contemplation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. remittance man<\/strong> — emigrant supported by money sent from home<\/p>\n

In the novels of Henry James, the <\/em>remittance man is a 19th-century precursor of today’s trust fund kids.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. marc<\/strong> — refuse remaining in wine press after the juice is expressed from grapes<\/p>\n

Though one might very well drink life to the lees, one hopes that the <\/em>marc will remain untouched, save perhaps by the feet which stomped the grapes to a pulp.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. spume<\/strong> — froth, foam; esp. of the sea<\/p>\n

The toddler was excited by the foaming bubbles that resulted from using laundry soap in the tub, but her mother was dismayed by the overflowing soap, which sent its <\/em>spume far down the carpeted hall.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. truculent<\/strong> — fierce, cruel, barbarous <\/p>\n

The rule of the mob now held complete and demonic sway over the men, their <\/em>truculent faces showing only bestial hate as they focused an evil gaze upon the target of their savage anger.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. specie — coined money Though cash has become rare, specie is rarer still, for no one wants pennies scuffing a fancy phone case or screen.   2. gurning — making a silly or grotesque face [Brit.] Watching the facial tics and spasms of the psychics as they communicated telepathically made me think I had … <\/p>\n

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